Something that always irritates me is that anytime I'm reading something American the words colour, honour, labour and harbour are always spelled without a "u". I don't mean irritated like "Fecking Americans! Learn how to spell!". It's more like "Uh. That's a bit annoying. Oh yeah, they spell it differently".

I'm not trying to be condescending or anything, trying to make you speak "proper" English, it's just every time I see the word "color" it looks wrong to me. So could any of you "honorable" people please tell me why you spell it "color" and how this came about.

Also, as bonus, David Mitchell raises some other good points in this video which I'd also like you to explain.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw]Dear America... | David Mitchell&#39;s SoapBox - YouTube[/ame]

This isn't me trying to give out about American-English, I'd just like to learn a bit more about it.

Something that always irritates me is that anytime I'm reading something American the words colour, honour, labour and harbour are always spelled without a "u". I don't mean irritated like "Fecking Americans! Learn how to spell!". It's more like "Uh. That's a bit annoying. Oh yeah, they spell it differently".

I'm not trying to be condescending or anything, trying to make you speak "proper" English, it's just every time I see the word "color" it looks wrong to me. So could any of you "honorable" people please tell me why you spell it "color" and how this came about.

Who cares, the fact that you even made a thread about it is too much. I have no clue, but I'm not going to start throwing u's in because it doesn't sound like a u when I say it. It's like your awful spelling of centre or theatre, get over it.

Who cares, the fact that you even made a thread about it is too much. I have no clue, but I'm not going to start throwing u's in because it doesn't sound like a u when I say it. It's like your awful spelling of centre or theatre, get over it.

Actually we spell it centre and theatre too. I thought it was the Americans who spelled it "theater" and "center", but I don't know. That's exactly why I started this, because I want to know.

Actually we spell it centre and theatre too. I thought it was the Americans who spelled it "theater" and "center", but I don't know. That's exactly why I started this, because I want to know.

lol I know how you spell it we spell it theater and center... and yea its awful so what get over it, I don't care, I didn't make a thread... It's named after your country big deal, none of you living today had anything to do with the creation of it so who are you to comment on spelling. What's awful is that it isn't pronounced like re it is er.